NEW YORK — Chris Christie on Wednesday criticized President Barack Obama over the Department of Veterans Affairs scandal, saying it’s not enough to show “emotion” without offering a solution.

“People don’t expect any of us up on this stage to be perfect and get everything right every time, but what they do expect is when something wrong happens on your watch you’re going to take responsibility for it and you’re going to go about fixing it, and I think the president has just not shown a great interest in fixing these problems,” the New Jersey governor said. “He’s shown more of an interest in expressing his emotion about them.”

Along with the veterans scandal, Christie cited trouble with state health insurance exchanges under Obamacare, including Nevada most recently. The potential 2016 presidential contender’s comments came at a press conference with fellow Republican governors during a quarterly donor confab.

“We now see this problem at the VA and all we’ve heard from the president is that he’s angry about it,” Christie said, minutes after Obama addressed the issue at a news conference in Washington. “But we haven’t seen him yet say what steps he’s going to take to try to fix the problem.”

There has been growing outrage over allegations of bureaucratic maneuvering to hide wait times at VA health facilities that have led to as many as 40 deaths. Obama has called the scandal “disgraceful” and noted there are multiple ongoing investigations.

A chorus of Republicans have called for Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign or be fired — though Christie did not discuss that Wednesday — but Obama has not indicated if he will push the Cabinet member out.

“We’re going to work with him to solve the problem, but I am going to make sure that there is accountability throughout the system after I get the full report,” Obama said.